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PAiGtE FOUiR
The Butler Herald
Established in 1876
Entered at the Post Office at Butler,
Georgia as Mail Matter of Second
Class.
C. E. BENNS, Editor and Owner
0. E. COX, Business Manager
R. B. K1RK.SEY, Shop Supt.
OFFICIAL ORIGAN OF TATLOR CO
PUBUSHED EVERY THURSDAY
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen Hundred Copies.
SUBSORHTION $1.60 A YEAR
B-unyper crops anid moderate pric
es; good times in good old Taylor
once again.
Armistice Day, Thanksgiving, and
Christmas. Rapidly we are approach
ing a new year.
The Macon Evening News, iwhlcb
carries in its front .page date line,
“Macon, Mn.,” quotes “Tobcit’
Zuillen as follows: “When you see a
young bachelor carrying a .portfolio
after work hours, it isn't "'industry
He is moving - again.”
Even the big frost, such as we
looked upon with admiration Sunday
morning, accompanied by ice, doesn't
mean that warm autumn days are
over and that winter is here, for who
could ask for more perfect days with
bright, warm, sunshine than these
days following Sunday’s frost.
When we begin each week getting
material for our weekly issue, we
wonder just what will happen of in
terest to our readers, but before
press day we usually have more
copy than we can use and them have
to figure what we can leave out
without getting in dutcli with some
one.—To f hair Enterprise. Thought
we were the only pickle in the jar.
Count up the remaining days on
the calemda.- and it will surprise you
just how few shopping days remain
before Christmas.
The United States is walking in
the mkldle of the road as regarding
other nations’ affairs. We trust that
no shell will burst upon us while in
neutral zone.
Rill Riffem: “At last we know who
the town was named for. Charlie
Benins' Butler Herald says one of the
most prominent citizens of Butler is
Hon. Cecil Butt.” Butt, ’taint so
Bill. .
In Arlington, Ga., they have what
looks like a real scandal column in
tlheir OaHhoim Courier. It is called
the Clhatter Box and deals with who-
waswioem-with whooais-last-night and
three-guesses-why stuff.
Bill Sublive says: “Over in llutler
we see by Charlie Benns' Herald a
negro tried to rob a store by enter
ing down the chimney. He was
caught, of course, because being ir
the chimney lie could not “flue.”
The spelling contest at the South
eastern fair was won by a student of
tihe Jackson school. She made a re-
Tr.ratable record in spelling 221 Haiti
words out of 226 in the test. Con
gratulations to Miss Roslyn Rediman,
the winner.
Senator Walter F. George will be
principal speaker at the Harvest
Festival llarlbeeue to be hold tomor
row at the Georgia Experiment Sta
tion, Experiment, Ga., the occasion
being sponsored by the pimento in
dustry' of Georgia in conjunction
with tile Georgia Experiment Sta
tion. The editor of tins paper ac
knowledges with sincere appreciation
an invitation to be present.
The rttmdenits and their teachers
for .both schools—Butler and Rey
nolds—are working hard to make the
c-ootion- of the Heraki devoted to
their .schools an interesting and
worthwhile department. They are
succeeding splendidly, w-e think. It
you haven't read this feature, do so
now. Ami you might let these young
folks know by an occasional word
of .praise that you appreciate their
efforts.
Taylor county has the best set of
school bus drivers to be found in
the state. They go about tlveir duties
day in and day out, and so far they
have 'been fortunate in not having
had a single child injured during the
long time they have been trucking
pupils to Butler school. The same
good record is maintained in all dis
tricts thorughout the county, so we
are informed. We feel sure bhe pa-
trors of blve schools appreciate such
careful drivers.
Since the paving jo-b around the
public square and all streets leading
out of town has been completed, im
proving the appearance of our lovely
little city far beyond the most hope
ful anticipation for it a few years
ago, wouldn't it be a fine thing if all
our people. manifested the proper
amount of pride necessary to keep
the strets ns clean and pretty as
they look today? This may l>e so
easily done by using a tittle care in
seeing that papers and rubbish of
ail kind are not .permitted to blow
about and Utter up the streets, but
placed in containens and carter! away
by brash wagon. Nothing would
please the officials of the town bet
ter thlan Cor all of us to do this. So
let’s give them our hearty co
operation in this matter, that our
town will attract the attention of
visitors and tourists as being one oit
the prettiest and cleanest towns in
the state.
Oglethorpe and Ellaville have re
cently dedicated new high school
basketball shells, ami w-e heartily
congratulate both communities. Both
schools now have modern and attrac
tive indoor courts where their chil
dren may .play and obtain the forms
of exercises so vital to the proper
development of their bodies. Most oi
the schools and communities in this
section now have such buildings and
Americus has one under construc
tion.—Amc ri c u s Times-Reco rder.
Referring to the loss Griffin has
sustained in the death of one of its
prominent officials, Editor Quimby
Melton says: “Griffin lost a fine citi
zen, an efficient official, air»d a man
who numbered his friends by all who
knew him, in the passing of Emmett
Powell, city commissioner. Mr.
Powell served the city as a member
of the board of education for many
years and then ns a member of the
city commission. His death has cast
a pall over the city, for Emmett
Powell was considered one of tihe out
standing men in Griffin.”
According to our information there
is a strong possibility of getting the
road leading from Butler to Garden
Valley and Ideal by way of the
school building, Mt. Pi-sgah church
and Cross Roads school, included in
the .highway system and recon
ditioned by the county convicts as
have the roads to Charing and- .Mauk
bhe bwo latter reflecting great credit
to our commissioners as well ns to
our convict system in the class ol
work that has been accomplished. Wo
don’t believe there is a county in bhe
state in which its local officials havo
accomplished as much in road-build-
iug as have e Commissioners ol
Taylor county. We sincerely hopo
that they will not be throttled in
their efforts under any plan by the
state to place road work in the coun
ty in other hands. Out of love, re
spect and appreciation for our Com
missioners we give them u rousing
vote of thanks for what they have
already done, and at the same time
believe they are in a fair way for
greater accomplishments.
One of the problems that must bo
solved by the agricultural sections ot
the country is the problem of pro
ducing- income sufficient to stand up
against the enormous financial drain
brought about through the general
purchase of automobiles, tractors,
trucks, radios and mechanical ice
boxes and those things which re
move the money from the com
munity. In many sections the cash
i outgo for these things and for oil
and gasoline is greater than the
combined inco-me of the area. The
natural result has been that these
communities have been, and are be
ing, gradually drained of their re-
1 sources afid their cash backlog to
. the extent that hard times which
might have been weathered by the
same community 30 or 40 years and
50 years ago now create in a brief
time an acute condition. The cash
i reserve is soon exhausted. Forty and
60 years ago much of the money re
mained in the community and it vvas
no uncommon thing for the banks to
have large deposits from i ndividual
depositors, both farmer and wage
earners and small business men-. Such
a thing is the exception today. The
question naturally suggests itself:
I What is to be the -solution or the
outcome? Two courses of action sug
gest themselves. The agricultural
communities must increase their
| income or curtail their buying to a
i point where a safe with reserve is
maintained. Unless this is 1 done these
-ections are going to continue to
operate with a low cash reserve and
live in constant peril of hardship'
■vith each recurring depression o:
I crop shortage.
THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER. GEORGIA, OCTOBER 28, 1937
CUSSETA SCHOOLS
GET RATING
The many Taylor county friends
of Prof. 1’o.pe Jarrell will be very
much gratified and join the Heraki
Ln extending him sincere congratula
tions on the high rating that has
been accorded the Cusseta High
school of which he is Superintendent.
Prof. Jarrell is a son of Hen. and
Mrs. F. C. Jarrell, of this county.
Among his brothers is Hon-. Th-elmon
Jarrell, Clerk of the .Superior court
of Taylor counity. Referring to the
accomplishments of the Cusseta
school the Columbus Enquirer-Sun
says editorially:
“Both the elementary and high
schools at Cusseta have this year
been rated A-l by the Georgia State
Accrediting association, and their
many friends are pleased that they
have received this due recognition.
Congratulations are hereby extended.
“The Cusseta high school was
placed on the accredited list in the
spring with a number 2 rating. Since
that time many changes, additions
and improvements have been made
for the purpose of raising the stan
dard oif the school to a number one
rating as well as to give the best ad
vantages to the pupils of Chattahoo
chee county.
“A student of that county now has
the advantage of entering high
school and registering for a course
of study that will more adequately
prepare him for his chosen vocation
in life. He may register for either a
commercial, scientific or academic
course.
“The school ranks one hundred
par cent in membership in the Na
tional Education Association.
“This progress of the school is as
cribed to the splendid cooperation ot
the school officials, faculty members
parents, students and friends. The in
stitution is noted for its fine spirit,
whether on the athletic field orin the
class rooms. Under the leadership ol
Superintendent A. P. Jarrell and
others cooperating, it has become one
of the best of its kind in tihe section
or oven the state.”
There is deep sorrow throughout
the state, particularly in this section,
over the passing of Fred G. Storey
and Carl F. Sc-h-ro mining, both out-
sanding citizens of Calumlbus. The
death of Mr. Storey, who had been
connected with the Columbus papers
for the past 35 years, came while
seated at his desk and caused by a
heart attack. As editor and car
toonist of the Enquirer-Sun his work
was of the very highest type and
leaves vacant a chair that can never
be filled like he filled it. We, like
thousands of his friends, are grieved
by his death. Mr. Sehomburg, who
died while on a visit to Jacksonville,
was a veteran jeweler ami one of
Columbus’ most progressive citizens.
He, too, will be greatly missed.
Whenever and wherever he speaks
Senator George attracts large audi
ences ami his utterances are highly
praised as in the recent instance
referred to by the Tifton Gazette
which says of him: “That was an in
spiring address Senator Walter F.
George delivered to the students of
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural Col
lege Friday—one of the kind ot
which Georgia’s senior senator is
capable. Boiled down to a simple
thought, Senator George told the A.
B. A. C. students that they they are
blessed with superior opportunities
over the generation that preceded
them, and that it is their privilege
to take the knowledge and training
they receive back to the farms of
Georgia ami achieve the crown of
success for which their training and
ability fit them.”
Pike County Journal: “Our courte
ous young postmaster, Wayman
Slade, has just returned from a trip
to Washington, D. C., where lie at
tended the National Convention of
the League of District Postmasters.
He had the honor of being one of the
nine hundred delegates from all over
the United States to this national
organization of the Third and Fourth
Class Postmasters. He and his
charming wife report a delightful
trip and wish every citizen could
visit the nation’s capital at least once
in his lifetime. He brought lack a bit
of interesting early history regard
ing the Zebulou postoffice. The first
record of a federal mail route to
Zebu Ion was in 1830 by way of a
post road from Fayetteville by way
of Spencer’s store ami on to Knox
ville in Crawford county—a distance
if 99 1-4 miles and mail coming
once a week. Spencer's store was
orobably in Zebu-Ion. The postal- re
ceipts for 1830 was 219; for 1831
I "vas 222; and for 1832 was 265. Days
if small beginnings but slowly
I Trowing.”
KNOW YOUR TIMBER
(By Emily Woodward)
Why all this bother about Know
ing Your Timber? Is it really im
portant or just another lot of bally
hoo ?
Well, deride for yourself. Look
buck less- than 20 years and see -if |
you d-o not think it has been worth
while for a few Georgians to be
convinced that it vvas important to j
know Georgia Timber.
At a recent meeting of a group |
.. uered in Savannah from all paiu '
of the worm, i. uuy Woolford, '
president of the Georgia Forestry
association reviewed what lias been
accomplished in- lesss than two de
cades in breaking down damaging ig
norance of the South’s timber re-
sourres. Mr. Woolford hited the
Capper report of 1920 predicting
death to the naval stores industry in
Georgia by 1926; he pointed to the
gloomy forecast that all lumber in
the United States would 'be consumed
by 1935; to bhe discouraging argu
ment that turpentined trees produc
ed an inferior grade o,f lumber; and |
finally to the satement issued in
pamphlet from the U. S. Forestry
Laboratories at Madison, Wise., that
southern pine was probably too resi
nous to be considered satisfactory
pulp material for newsprint.
However, Dr. Charles Herty, the
Georgia Forestry Association and a
few other Georgians refused to ac
cept these theoires, and proceeded
diligently with the business of know
ing Georgia timber. As a result wo
know, today, that Georgia is furnish
ing about one-third of the world's
naval stores supply—that Georgia
still has lumber—even in the face ol
sad and destructive burning of the
forests; that turpentined trees make
better lumber; and finally that a lit
tle laboratory in Savannah has ex
ploded the Wisconsin laboratory
theory that Georgia pines are too
resinous for satisfactory pulp lor
newsprint.
This determination on the part of
a few Georgians to know Georgia
timber has laid the foundation for
vast economic expansion in Georgia
ami the south. Pulp manufacturing
plants are already here and others
are on the way. And now it becomes
increasingly important for the Geor
gia timberland owner to know his
timber. For, if these mills are to
bring a permanent economic benefit,
these owners of timber, particularly
the owners of small areas, must
know .vhen and how to out and mar
ket their trees; w’hich to use for
lumber, poles and crossties, when to
turpentine for the greatest profit
and above all things they need to
know the damaging effect of fire.
Mr. Woolford sounds this warning
"If the paper and' pulp mills week
iur forests by permitting unwise
lumbering practices they may wreck
us as well as thorn-selves.”
Who can best prevent this wreck
age? The timberland owners, and
they must know their timber if they
hope to do it.
There are 133 divorce cases set 011
the calendar for the opening day ol
tlie November term of Muscogee su
perior court. We have always been
told tlie best place to take a collec
tion is among the largest crowd.
Some of the civic organizations ot
Columbus might take advantage at
tlie day to finance some big enter
prise by passing the plate.
“How you liave aged,” is the first
thought that rums through our minds
when we meet a friend we have not
seen for a number of years. Strange
we do not feel that we have dian-ged
much but that our friend has grown
grayer or heavier or thinner as the
case may- be. If w-e would but stop to
think we would know that he or she
is thinking the same thing of us.—
Perry Home Journal.
This perhaps explains why Sister
Ruby Hodges and her “Ordinary”
husband (or should w’e say Judge
Hodges) have absented themselves
from the conventions of the press
association of late years. Sister Ru
by was pretty as a child, beautiful
as a young lady and more attractive
looking as a matron. If its John’s
face she is trying to shield she
might just bring him along, anyway.
He is good company in any crowd'.
That the information contained
therein might be of interest to some
mothers who w-e expect to see at
church next Sunday with their
promising offspring we reproduce
the following item from the Savan
nah Press: “Having heard of an im
portant discovery, made some years
ago, by a ready mode of silencing
squalling children, I lately, on beard
of a car on my way from Newark
here, embraced the opportunity of
testing its virtues, with the most
satisfactory result, upon one of the
loudest and most incorrigible little
squ'allers I think that ever shocked
any weak nerves. The process is a
very- simple one—all I did was to
pass one finger gently and repeated
ly across the cartilege of the child's
n-ose, and in less than a minute, to
Hie great amusement of the passen
gers, it was sound asleep. Believing
so desirable a piece of information
■should be generally known, I have
-orccluded to give it publicity.”—
Morning News, Sept. 4, 1852.
YOUR BUSINESS
LAW TODAY
-By-
W. C. CANTRELL
Attorney and Professor of Law
Atlanta, Ga
This article continues our dis
cussion of the Statute of Limitations
or the time within which suits or
actions at law must be instituted or
begun on not^s, contracts, and open
accounts in order to enforce collec
tion in the courts. Many people have
the idea that a payment on a note or
account extends the period of limita
tions. This is not true. A payment on
an aocount will be applied or credit
ed on the oldest item on the account
within the statutory time in the at>
sence of specific instructions by the
debtor to the contrary.
To constitute an account which
will cause the limitation period to
run from the last item on the ac
count, there must be mutual buying
and selling between the parties. As
to accoents that fall due at the end
of the year or which run through a
number of years, the Statute of Li-
mtations begins to run as to various
parts at the end of each year. The
creditor will not be protected 'by
bringing forward balances from year
to year. It is a better business prac-
tile to reduce these balances to
notes at the end of each year rather
than to continue them in the form ot
open accounts.
The period of limitation does not
run against infants, persons under
21 years of age, persons imprisoned,
idiots or insane persons during the
time of such disability. This rule
works both ways; that is, as to ob
ligations against as well as rights
in favor of persons laboring under
these legal disabilities. If either of
these disabilities occurs after the
right of action accrues and such dis
ability is not voluntary, the limita
tion cases to operate during such
period of disability. If suit is bogun
before the happenings of the dis
ability, such suit may be continued
by the appointment of a guardian.
If a person dies and his estate is
unrepresented by an administrator or
executor, the statute does not run
for a period of five years in most
states during which time the estate
is unrepresented. This rule applies
to obligations due the estate as w e ]|
as to claims against the estate. | t
may be stated here that no suit maj
be maintained ugainst any adminis-
trator or executor for a period of 12
months after his qualification aim
during this 12 months the limitation
period does not run.
If a person incurred a debt and
then remoped from the state, the
period of limitations would not oji e .
rate in his favor dcring the petjo.l
of time that he resided out of the
state. When he returned to the state
with intention to reside, the statute
would again operate in his fapot.
If a person having a right of ac
tion or a cause of action has been
induced, mislead, or deterred from
bringing, or instituting suit by rea
son of fraud, the period of limitation
begins to run only from the discov.
ery of the fraud. Of course, the per
son claiming fraud must show that
he exercised ordinary care and dili
gence to discover the fraud; other
wise, he will not be allowed this ex
tension of time.
In order to revive a debt already
barred by the statute, it is necessary
that the new promise shall be ig
writing, signed by the debtor or by
someone by him duly authorized. To
revive a debt discharged in bank
ruptcy, the new promise must also be
in writing. A letter by the debtor to
the creditor stating that he will pay
the debt as soon as he is able hai
been held by the courts as a now
promise in writing sufficient to re
vive the debt and extend the period
of limitations from the date of tha
letter.
Generally an entry of credit or
payment on any written obligation
to pay, in the handwriting of the
debtor, will be equivalent to a novo
promise to pay and thereby extend
the period of limitations from tha
date of such entry of credit.
Havingd iscussed the Statute ol
Frauds and the Statute of Limita
tions, our next several articels will
be devoted to a discussion of tha
fundamental pi-inciples of law in
volved in Wills and trusts.
PEANUT TIME IN THE
DEEP SOUTH
“Boiled green pimlensd Boiled
green pinders!” cries bhe ragged
barefoot 'ad at bhe railroad stations
and cross roads in the back country
of Georgia.
“Boiled green peanuts! Boiled
green peanuibs!” cries his Georgia
city cousiin, as he treads bhe streets
otf the lunger Georgia cities, for thus
is peanut picking time in the deep
South. j
Pinders, -goobers and peanuts, as
they are called in various sections
of the country, are raised in great
quantities throughout Georgia, both
for food for human beings and' also
to fatten hogs on, producing grand
peanut-fed ham.
Everyone ktno-ws the roasted or
parched peanut, but only a smalll
section of the United States knows
tlie delicacy of the green boiled pea
nut. A dish fit .for kings and epicures
it tickles the palate of the high and
the loiwly, it is relished by aid from
tlie knee high toddler to the ancient!
greatgrandidad.
Peanut boilings of an evening are !
like wha|fc the old-fashioned taffy-1
pull used to be. It is a gathering of
all 1 tlie neighborhood. I,n rural sec
tions, about sundown, half a dozen
' young folks rqpair to the nearby
peanut field armed with rakes. Hill
after hill of -peanuts -are raked up in
a short time. The peanuts are pulled
from the plant, washed and put otn
to boil in a big syrup kettle of salt
ed water, A bushel or so of pe-an-uhh '
are boiled, and by 8 o’clock 40 or 50
have gathered a-round the farmyard
arid everyone, armed with a big pa
per plate of boiled pinders, starts
munching. You just do not stop,
either, till every last peanut as gone.
So if you want to have a typical
American experience, just treat
yourself to a -bag of fresh boiled
green pinders the next time you am
in the deep South in peanut-picking
time! Christian Science Monitor. |
ELECTRIFICATION IN
TAYLOR COUNTY
It is planned to put electric lights
into every school house in Taylor
county, where 60 miles of power
lines have just been completed ant
contracts made for 50 miles more.
The home economics students in the
county are now ®pecializing on hit
ter-making since they have access to
refrigeration, it is not their purpose
to neglect the other things so im
portant in home economics, but ^
are trying to make butter of ^
highest quality, and to package it i*
the moat attractive form. Processing
and saving the products of the fa 1 ®
lias been an objective of bhe rural
workers for the past year or more-
And it is said that today in several
counties of Middle Georgia tan tin'**
as much canning and preserving h® 6
been done for this winter’s food- suf
ply as in any one of the past ^
years.—Eugene Anderson ' n
Macon Telegraph.
Love, Matrimony, Divorce
What Is Love?
Love is an abscess on a fellow’ 1
pocketibook. And matrimony?
m-ony is a .little ship that &&
around on bhe ocean of -love.
tell ime, what is divorce? Divot* 61 ®
the submarine that blows up '
ship. I have been blown up six tin**'
—-Clipped from a friend’s scrap
book.
What could be more beautifu
said of one .than this fro-nt t
Cochran Journal: “There l' v€S
Cochran one to whom I have it 0,1 *®. *
grief and discouragement; stunt '
through the hlackness, fu-mbtu
through the bitterness. I htave 60 ^
to her when I have blundered ^
when I was a quitter. Never
has she failed me. But by her
taught me courage, and ^r 6 ” ,
and God.”